Spoiler alert! The bottom of this blog post worriedly rumbles about a forthcoming film adaptation of a dearly-regarded classic from all our childhoods…

But in the meantime, I’ve more enthusing news to share – James Patterson – that ubiquitous human publishing house of a genre-writer -with a whole store‘s worth of books under his name (including the famous Alex Cross series) – is propping up Indie Book shops –

Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s devastating, whimsical, wonderful and wistful tale of a boy who fell to earth… is the only book that ever made me cry… (in the endearing, poignantly coming-of-age-kinda way).